Horos : : Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone.

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In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the a...

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Potter, Thea.
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
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Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. A New Ancient Petrography -- 2. Does the Letter Matter? -- 3. Breaking the Law -- 4. Terminological Horizons -- 5. The Presence of the Lithic -- 6. Geophilia Entombed or the Boundary of a Woman's Mind -- 7. Solon's Petromorphic Biopolitics -- 8. I Am the Boundary of the Market -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace.
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